Ned White

Ned White (died 1880) was an American outdoorsman and pelt trader from Kansas.

Biography
Ned White was born in Kansas, United States, and he made a living for himself by selling animal skins and carcasses to steamboats along the Missouri River. He dressed as a Native American, using pelts to make his own clothing. Around 1860, he adopted the Apache boy Colton White, raising him on the frontier and teaching him his trade. White had a resentment of Tom Magruder, the man responsible for the deaths of Colton's parents, and in 1880 he decided to steal the Cross of Coronado from the Morning Star steamboat before Magruder's henchman Josiah Reed could steal it. Reed and some renegade soldiers attacked the boat, and White gave Colton a token to the Alhambra brothel and told him to search for a prostitute named Jenny. He then threw him over the side of the ship before it exploded, saving Colton as White and the renegade soldiers all perished.